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The Commerce Department on Feb. 11 approved the expansion of the “.edu” domain name to allow usage by schools with postsecondary distance-education programs, as well as specialty and training programs such as the Connecticut Institute of Hair Design and the American Film Institute.Read the Full Article
The first-ever session of “Enterprising Rural Families: Making it Work” will begin Feb. 17. Those interested can register online and obtain fee information at www.eRuralFamilies.org. Read the Full Article
Scottish Knowledge, a body set up by top Scottish businesses and academics to sell distance learning products developed by Scottish universities in overseas markets, has gone bust and its chief executive has emigrated to Australia. Read the Full Article
Planning for the 50th anniversary celebration, scheduled April 15 at the BOCES complex, is in full swing and BOCES students are building a commemorative anniversary float and a car to pull it in area parades this summer. Read the Full Article
Roger J. Benavides and Frank Elder Jr. will serve terms that run through Feb. 1, 2007. Read the Full Article
The Army’s virtual e-learning program, eArmyU, was established in January 2001 to attract new recruits. It will include programs from 32 colleges and universities around the nation.Read the Full Article
DENVER, Colo. (Feb. 10, 2003)-Jones International University®, Ltd. (JIU™), the first fully online, accredited university, announced today that it will offer military personnel and their dependents a 20 percent discount on all courses for which they register by the end of 2003. In addition, if any such student is deployed while taking a JIU course […]
To help meet the requirements of a new state law reducing average class sizes, United Teachers of Dade President Pat Tornillo proposed to Gov. Jeb Bush Feb. 10 that the state advertisement convert 1,680 high school computer labs into classrooms and give laptops to the students and teachers instead. Read the Full Article
Indeed, hundreds of teachers applied for the new “educator mission specialist” program even after the Feb. 1 catastrophe blanketed the news. Read the Full Article
Students in the Saucon Valley School District soon will be able to take classes that are not offered in the classroom. Read the Full Article